(BEDFORD) - A Bedford man was arrested after police say he was sending inappropriate photos to a 12-year-old girl through Facebook.

24-year-old Terry Browning of 188 Heartland St., was arrested Wednesday on a charge of dissemination of matter harmful to minors, a Class D felony.

The girl's mother told police while she was viewing her daughter's Facebook page she saw a photo of a penis on the that it had been sent to the girl through a private message from Browning.

The girl told police she had been chatting with Browing on Facebook since December 2012.

Officers interviewed Browning who admitted to taking the photos of himself with his cell phone or on web cam on his lap top computer and sending them to the girl. Brown told police he knew the girl was a minor.